In terms of performance I used the latest motherboard from GIGABYTE along with a Core i7 920 and two WD Raptor HDDs in RAID 0 mode as the test bench as that is a common system and has plenty of power to play back Blu-ray Disks. I played The Matrix on this system flawlessly without errors in playback. Another Blu-ray movie I used to try to see missed frames is Aliens Versus Predator again without dropped frames.

OptiDrive Matrix read

Burning test

A great benchmark for testing Blu-ray Discs and DVD-ROMs is OptiDrive Control which can show the performance of a drive on playback and write speeds. The ASUS BC-08B1ST drive had playback speed of near the 4x maximum the Matrix movie was recorded on at peak and an average speed of 2.5x. The DVD Write speed using a 24x Sony DVD-R DL disk was peaked near the 16x maximum the drive advertised as its speed.